@article{nguyen_tanizaki_unsal_2023, title={Study of gapped phases of 4d gauge theories using temporal gauging of the Z(N) 1-form symmetry}, ISSN={["1029-8479"]}, DOI={10.1007/JHEP08(2023)013}, abstractNote={Abstract To study gapped phases of 4d gauge theories, we introduce the temporal gauging of ℤN 1-form symmetry in 4d quantum field theories (QFTs), thereby defining effective 3d QFTs with $$ \overset{\sim }{\mathbb{Z}} $$ ℤ ~ N × ℤN 1-form symmetry. In this way, spatial fundamental Wilson and ’t Hooft loops are simultaneously genuine line operators. Assuming a mass gap and Lorentz invariant vacuum of the 4d QFT, the $$ \overset{\sim }{\mathbb{Z}} $$ ℤ ~ N × ℤN symmetry must be spontaneously broken to an order-N subgroup H, and we can classify the 4d gapped phases by specifying H. This establishes the 1-to-1 correspondence between the two classification schemes for gapped phases of 4d gauge theories: one is the conventional Wilson-’t Hooft classification, and the other is the modern classification using the spontaneous breaking of 4d 1-form symmetry enriched with symmetry-protected topological states.}, number={8}, journal={JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS}, author={Nguyen, Mendel and Tanizaki, Yuya and Unsal, Mithat}, year={2023}, month={Aug} } @article{nguyen_tanizaki_unsal_2023, title={Winding ? and destructive interference of instantons}, ISSN={["1029-8479"]}, DOI={10.1007/JHEP09(2023)033}, abstractNote={A bstract While the θ dependence of field theories is 2 π periodic, the ground-state wavefunctions at θ and θ + 2 π often belong to different classes of symmetry-protected topological states. When this is the case, a continuous change of the θ parameter can introduce an interface that supports a nontrivial field theory localized on the wall. We consider the 2d ℂ P N −1 sigma model as an example and construct a weak-coupling setup of this interface theory by considering the small S 1 compactification with nonzero winding θ parameter and a suitable symmetry-twisted boundary condition. This system has N classical vacua connected by fractional instantons, but the anomaly constraint tells us that the fractional-instanton amplitudes should vanish completely to have N -fold degeneracy at the quantum level. We show how this happens in this purely bosonic system, uncovering that the integration over the zero modes annihilates the fractional instanton amplitudes, in sharp contrast to what happens when the θ angle is constant. Moreover, we provide another explanation of this selection rule by showing that the N perturbative vacua acquire different charges under the global symmetry with the activation of the winding θ angle. We also demonstrate a similar destructive interference between instanton effects in the ℂ P N −1 quantum mechanics with the Berry phase.}, number={9}, journal={JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS}, author={Nguyen, Mendel and Tanizaki, Yuya and Unsal, Mithat}, year={2023}, month={Sep} } @article{tanizaki_unsal_2022, title={Center vortex and confinement in Yang Mills theory and QCD with anomaly-preserving compactifications}, volume={2022}, ISSN={["2050-3911"]}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptac042}, DOI={10.1093/ptep/ptac042}, abstractNote={Abstract We construct an anomaly-preserving compactification of 4D gauge theories, including SU(N) Yang–Mills theory, $\mathcal {N}=1$ supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory, and quantum chromodynamics (QCD), down to 2D by turning on the ’t Hooft flux through T2. This provides a new framework to analytically calculate nonperturbative properties such as confinement, chiral symmetry breaking, and the multi-branch structure of vacua. We give a semiclassical description of these phenomena based on the center vortex and show that it enjoys the same anomaly-matching condition as the original 4D gauge theory. We conjecture that the weak-coupling vacuum structure on small $T^2 \times \mathbb {R}^2$ is adiabatically connected to the strong-coupling regime on $\mathbb {R}^4$ without any phase transitions. In QCD with fundamental quarks as well, we can turn on the ’t Hooft flux either by activating the SU(Nf)V symmetry twist for Nf = N flavors or by introducing a magnetic flux of baryon number U(1)B for arbitrary Nf flavors. In both cases, the weak-coupling center-vortex theory gives a prediction consistent with the chiral Lagrangian of 4D QCD.}, number={4}, journal={PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS}, publisher={Oxford University Press (OUP)}, author={Tanizaki, Yuya and Unsal, Mithat}, year={2022}, month={Apr} } @article{honda_itou_tanizaki_2022, title={DMRG study of the higher-charge Schwinger model and its ’t Hooft anomaly}, volume={11}, url={http://inspirehep.net/record/2163166}, DOI={10.1007/JHEP11(2022)141}, abstractNote={Abstract The charge-q Schwinger model is the (1 + 1)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics (QED) with a charge-q Dirac fermion. It has the ℤq 1-form symmetry and also enjoys the ℤq chiral symmetry in the chiral limit, and there is a mixed ’t Hooft anomaly between those symmetries. We numerically study the charge-q Schwinger model in the lattice Hamiltonian formulation using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG). When applying DMRG, we map the Schwinger model to a spin chain with nonlocal interaction via Jordan-Wigner transformation, and we take the open boundary condition instead of the periodic one to make the Hilbert space finite-dimensional. When computing the energy density or chiral condensate, we find that using local operators significantly reduces the boundary effect compared with the computation of corresponding extensive quantities divided by the volume. To discuss the consequence of the ’t Hooft anomaly, we carefully treat the renormalization of the chiral condensates, and then we confirm that Wilson loops generate the discrete chiral transformations in the continuum limit.}, journal={JHEP}, author={Honda, Masazumi and Itou, Etsuko and Tanizaki, Yuya}, year={2022}, month={Nov}, pages={141} } @article{fukushima_shimazaki_tanizaki_2022, title={Exploring the θ-vacuum structure in the functional renormalization group approach}, volume={04}, url={http://inspirehep.net/record/2023555}, DOI={10.1007/JHEP04(2022)040}, abstractNote={Abstract We investigate the θ-vacuum structure and the ’t Hooft anomaly at θ = π in a simple quantum mechanical system on S1 to scrutinize the applicability of the functional renormalization group (fRG) approach. Even though the fRG is an exact formulation, a naive application of the fRG equation would miss contributions from the θ term due to the differential nature of the formulation. We first review this quantum mechanical system on S1 that is solvable with both the path integral and the canonical quantization. We discuss how to construct the quantum effective action including the θ dependence. Such an explicit calculation poses a subtle question of whether a Legendre transform is well defined or not for general systems with the sign problem. We then consider a deformed theory to relax the integral winding by introducing a wine-bottle potential with the finite depth ∝ g, so that the original S1 theory is recovered in the g → ∞ limit. We numerically solve the energy spectrum in the deformed theory as a function of g and θ in the canonical quantization. We test the efficacy of the simplest local potential approximation (LPA) in the fRG approach and find that the correct behavior of the ground state energy is well reproduced for small θ. When the energy level crossing is approached, the LPA flow breaks down and fails in describing the ground state degeneracy expected from the ’t Hooft anomaly. We finally turn back to the original theory and discuss an alternative formulation using the Villain lattice action. The analysis with the Villain lattice at θ = π indicates that the nonlocality of the effective action is crucial to capture the level crossing behavior of the ground states.}, journal={JHEP}, author={Fukushima, Kenji and Shimazaki, Takuya and Tanizaki, Yuya}, year={2022}, month={Apr}, pages={040} } @article{hayashi_tanizaki_2022, title={Non-invertible self-duality defects of Cardy-Rabinovici model and mixed gravitational anomaly}, volume={2022}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85135228761&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1007/JHEP08(2022)036}, abstractNote={Abstract We study properties of self-duality symmetry in the Cardy-Rabinovici model. The Cardy-Rabinovici model is the 4d U(1) gauge theory with electric and magnetic matters, and it enjoys the SL(2, ℤ) self-duality at low-energies. SL(2, ℤ) self-duality does not realize in a naive way, but we notice that the STp duality transformation becomes the legitimate duality operation by performing the gauging of ℤN 1-form symmetry with including the level-p discrete topological term. Due to such complications in its realization, the fusion rule of duality defects becomes a non-group-like structure, and thus the self-duality symmetry is realized as a non-invertible symmetry. Moreover, for some fixed points of the self-duality, the duality symmetry turns out to have a mixed gravitational anomaly detected on a K3 surface, and we can rule out the trivially gapped phase as a consequence of anomaly matching. We also uncover how the conjectured phase diagram of the Cardy-Rabinovici model satisfies this new anomaly matching condition.}, number={8}, journal={Journal of High Energy Physics}, author={Hayashi, Y. and Tanizaki, Y.}, year={2022} } @article{tanizaki_unsal_2022, title={Semiclassics with 't Hooft flux background for QCD with 2-index quarks}, volume={08}, ISSN={["1029-8479"]}, url={http://inspirehep.net/record/2086495}, DOI={10.1007/JHEP08(2022)038}, abstractNote={Abstract We study quantum chromodynamics including the two-index symmetric or anti-symmetric quark (QCD(Sym/ASym)) on small ℝ2× T2 with a suitable magnetic flux. We first discuss the ’t Hooft anomaly of these theories and claim that discrete chiral symmetry should be spontaneously broken completely to satisfy the anomaly matching condition. The T2 compactification with the magnetic flux preserves the ’t Hooft anomaly, and the 2d effective theory is constrained by the same anomaly of 4d QCD(Sym/ASym). We demonstrate the spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry using the dilute gas of center vortices, which confirms the prediction of the ’t Hooft anomaly. We also find that each vacuum maintains the charge conjugation symmetry, and this gives affirmative support for the nonperturbative large-N orientifold equivalence between QCD(Sym/ASym) and $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1 supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory.}, number={8}, journal={JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS}, author={Tanizaki, Yuya and Unsal, Mithat}, year={2022}, month={Aug} } @article{honda_itou_kikuchi_tanizaki_2021, title={Negative string tension of higher-charge Schwinger model via digital quantum simulation}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85118645604&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, journal={arXiv}, author={Honda, M. and Itou, E. and Kikuchi, Y. and Tanizaki, Y.}, year={2021} } @article{nguyen_tanizaki_ünsal_2021, title={Non-invertible 1-form symmetry and Casimir scaling in 2d Yang-Mills theory}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85106167565&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, journal={arXiv}, author={Nguyen, M. and Tanizaki, Y. and Ünsal, M.}, year={2021} } @article{nguyen_tanizaki_unsal_2021, title={Noninvertible 1-form symmetry and Casimir scaling in 2D Yang-Mills theory}, volume={104}, ISSN={["2470-0029"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85114421307&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1103/PhysRevD.104.065003}, abstractNote={Pure Yang-Mills theory in 2 spacetime dimensions shows exact Casimir scaling. Thus there are infinitely many string tensions, and this has been understood as a result of non-propagating gluons in 2 dimensions. From ordinary symmetry considerations, however, this richness in the spectrum of string tensions seems mysterious. Conventional wisdom has it that it is the center symmetry that classifies string tensions, but being finite it cannot explain infinitely many confining strings. In this note, we resolve this discrepancy between dynamics and kinematics by pointing out the existence of a non-invertible 1-form symmetry, which is able to distinguish Wilson loops in different representations. We speculate on possible implications for Yang-Mills theories in 3 and 4 dimensions.}, number={6}, journal={PHYSICAL REVIEW D}, author={Nguyen, Mendel and Tanizaki, Yuya and Unsal, Mithat}, year={2021}, month={Sep} } @article{nguyen_tanizaki_ünsal_2021, title={Semi-Abelian gauge theories, non-invertible symmetries, and string tensions beyond $N$-ality}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85101229833&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, journal={arXiv}, author={Nguyen, M. and Tanizaki, Y. and Ünsal, M.}, year={2021} } @article{nguyen_tanizaki_unsal_2021, title={Semi-Abelian gauge theories, non-invertible symmetries, and string tensions beyond N-ality}, volume={03}, ISSN={["1029-8479"]}, url={http://inspirehep.net/record/1839639}, DOI={10.1007/JHEP03(2021)238}, abstractNote={Abstract We study a 3d lattice gauge theory with gauge group U(1)N−1 ⋊ SN, which is obtained by gauging the SN global symmetry of a pure U(1)N−1 gauge theory, and we call it the semi-Abelian gauge theory. We compute mass gaps and string tensions for both theories using the monopole-gas description. We find that the effective potential receives equal contributions at leading order from monopoles associated with the entire SU(N) root system. Even though the center symmetry of the semi-Abelian gauge theory is given by ℤN, we observe that the string tensions do not obey the N-ality rule and carry more detailed information on the representations of the gauge group. We find that this refinement is due to the presence of non-invertible topological lines as a remnant of U(1)N−1 one-form symmetry in the original Abelian lattice theory. Upon adding charged particles corresponding to W-bosons, such non-invertible symmetries are explicitly broken so that the N-ality rule should emerge in the deep infrared regime.}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS}, author={Nguyen, Mendel and Tanizaki, Yuya and Unsal, Mithat}, year={2021}, month={Mar} } @article{takahashi_tanizaki_2021, title={Sigma-model analysis of SU(3) antiferromagnetic spins on the triangular lattice}, volume={104}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85122103042&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1103/PhysRevB.104.235152}, abstractNote={Using field-theoretic techniques, we study the $SU(3)$ analogue of anti-ferromagnetic Heisenberg spin model on the triangular lattice putting the $p$-box symmetric representation on each site. Taking the large-$p$ limit, we show that the low-energy effective theory is described by a $(2+1)$-dimensional relativistic $SU(3)/U(1)^2$ nonlinear sigma model. Since the target space has a nontrivial homotopy $\pi_2(SU(3)/U(1)^2)\simeq \mathbb{Z}^2$, this model has two kinds of magnetic skyrmions, which can be created and annihilated by monopole instantons. By careful analysis of the Wess-Zumino term in the spin coherent path integral, we compute the Berry phase for these monopoles and it produces the destructive interference. This restricts possible perturbations of the effective Lagrangian by monopole operators, and we see that the valence-bond-solid (VBS) phase should have degenerate ground states when $p\not\in 3\mathbb{Z}$. We also compute 't Hooft anomalies to constrain possible phases of this system, and a direct phase transition between N\'eel and VBS phases is supported from the anomaly matching.}, number={23}, journal={Physical Review B}, author={Takahashi, I. and Tanizaki, Y.}, year={2021} } @article{takahashi_tanizaki_2021, title={Sigma-model analysis of SU(3) antiferromagnetic spins on the triangular lattice}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85115844171&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, journal={arXiv}, author={Takahashi, I. and Tanizaki, Y.}, year={2021} } @article{kobayashi_lee_shiozaki_tanizaki_2021, title={Topological terms of (2+1)d flag-manifold sigma models}, volume={2021}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85112854890&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1007/JHEP08(2021)075}, abstractNote={Abstract We examine topological terms of (2 + 1)d sigma models and their consequences in the light of classifications of invertible quantum field theories utilizing bordism groups. In particular, we study the possible topological terms for the U(N)/U(1)N flag-manifold sigma model in detail. We argue that the Hopf-like term is absent, contrary to the expectation from a nontrivial homotopy group π3(U(N)/U(1)N) = ℤ, and thus skyrmions cannot become anyons with arbitrary statistics. Instead, we find that there exist $$ \frac{N\left(N-1\right)}{2}-1 $$ N N − 1 2 − 1 types of Chern-Simons terms, some of which can turn skyrmions into fermions, and we write down explicit forms of effective Lagrangians.}, number={8}, journal={Journal of High Energy Physics}, author={Kobayashi, Ryohei and Lee, Yasunori and Shiozaki, Ken and Tanizaki, Yuya}, year={2021}, pages={075} } @article{kobayashi_lee_shiozaki_tanizaki_2021, title={Topological terms of (2+1)d flag-manifold sigma models}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85103025056&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, journal={arXiv}, author={Kobayashi, R. and Lee, Y. and Shiozaki, K. and Tanizaki, Y.}, year={2021} } @article{cherman_jacobson_tanizaki_ünsal_2020, title={Anomalies, a mod 2 index, and dynamics of 2d adjoint QCD}, volume={8}, url={http://inspirehep.net/record/1751322}, DOI={10.21468/SciPostPhys.8.5.072}, abstractNote={We show that 22d adjoint QCD, an SU(N)SU(N) gauge theory with one massless adjoint Majorana fermion, has a variety of mixed ’t Hooft anomalies. The anomalies are derived using a recent mod 22 index theorem and its generalization that incorporates ’t Hooft flux. Anomaly matching and dynamical considerations are used to determine the ground-state structure of the theory. The anomalies, which are present for most values of NN, are matched by spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking. We find that massless 22d adjoint QCD confines for N >2N>2, except for test charges of NN-ality N/2N/2, which are deconfined. In other words, \mathbb Z_NℤN center symmetry is unbroken for odd NN and spontaneously broken to \mathbb Z_{N/2}ℤN/2 for even NN. All of these results are confirmed by explicit calculations on small \mathbb{R}\times S^1ℝ×S1. We also show that this non-supersymmetric theory exhibits exact Bose-Fermi degeneracies for all states, including the vacua, when NN is even. Furthermore, for most values of NN, 22d massive adjoint QCD describes a non-trivial symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase of matter, including certain cases where the number of interacting Majorana fermions is a multiple of 88. As a result, it fits into the classification of (1+1)(1+1)d SPT phases of interacting Majorana fermions in an interesting way.}, number={5}, journal={SciPost Phys.}, author={Cherman, Aleksey and Jacobson, Theodore and Tanizaki, Yuya and Ünsal, Mithat}, year={2020}, month={May}, pages={072} } @article{chen_fukushima_nishimura_tanizaki_2020, title={Deconfinement and CP breaking at θ=π in Yang-Mills theories and a novel phase for SU(2)}, volume={102}, url={http://inspirehep.net/record/1798942}, DOI={10.1103/physrevd.102.034020}, abstractNote={We discuss the deconfinement and the CP-breaking phase transitions at $\theta=\pi$ in Yang-Mills theories. The 't Hooft anomaly matching prohibits the confined phase with CP symmetry and requires $T_{dec}(\theta=\pi) \le T_{CP}$, where $T_{dec}(\theta=\pi)$ and $T_{CP}$ denote the deconfinement and the CP-restoration temperatures, respectively, at $\theta=\pi$. We analytically study these two phase transitions in softly-broken $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories on small $\mathbb{R}^3\times S^1$ with the periodic boundary condition for gluinos. For most gauge groups except SU(2) in this model, we find that the inequality is saturated, so deconfinement and CP restoration occur simultaneously. We demonstrate special features of the SU(2) gauge theory: There is a finite window of two temperatures, $T_{dec}(\pi)